Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Not all the notable obituaries are publish
ed in Philadelphia. Here is one which ap-
peared in a Boston paper: F'L. G. Chase, the
former owner of Hopeful, 2:1424, is dead"
Anarchist Most has threatened New York
newspaper with a slander suit for publishing
some of his rantings. What does a icon
sistent" Anarchist like Most want to do with
the law?
Jesse Pomeroy's latest performance has
raised the question whether it would not
have been better to have hung him when he
was young. Imprisonment doesn't seem to
have improved his character" much.
Even the benighted Africans know good
thing when they see it. Some time since two
Fall River, Massachusetts,, residents sent
lot of cotton goods to be distributed by the
missionaries on the Congo, and the result is
already apparent. The Flint mill at Fall
River has just received an order for miscel-
laneous lot of cotton goods, prints, sheetings,
etc. The natives have discovered the superb
ority of the American cottons over the Eng
lish, which are weighted with sixing and clay,
and when washed are poor and sleazy.
MIR. Edward Atkinson has taken rather
ingenious way OF finding out whether the
white man in the United States is deteriorat-
ing in size and weight. His facts were OBJ
tanned by sending to large dealers in ready
made clothes. The general result is that the
average height of buyers of such clothing in
New England is.5 feet So to 8 inches, and in
~ oY1a oh
and that the average weight is between 155
and 100 pounds. From remarks added by
those with whom he communicated it ap-
| pears that within the last ten or twenty years
larger sizes have been more in demand In the
South the average chest and waist measures
| have increased an inch since the war. It is
also found that men in cities do not require
| as large clothes as those in the country.
There is no need of going to the far West
| for a manSthat can shoot straight B. A.
Bartlett, of Randolph, New York, is re-
| markable rifeman. In recent exhibition
| of his skill he is said to have hit common
white bean at a distance of twenty five yards,
holding his rife in various positions He also
| hit postal card that was set mp edgewise.
Using 32-calibre ball he shot through a
| 32-calibre pistol barrel, the bullet splitting
on knife blade on the further end of the
revolver barrel, and each half of the bullet
breaking an egg. He ignited parlor match
| held by person at the target stand, knocked
| the ashes from cigars, and concluded by
shooting bean from the nose of a friend,
who had sufficient confidence in his skill to
| permit the attempt. All these remarkable
| shots are vouehed for by reputable wit
nesses.
One-cent postage for letters is probably not
very far off The annual report of the post
master general is expected to show such an
/ increase in the use of the mails as will make
| the department soon self supporting. AS
| anticipated, the last reduction on letter post
age resulted in an enormous and a constantly
/ growing increase in the use of the mails,
| which is now enlarging the receipts from
sales of stamps, the increase for the present
| year being four million dollars Opening the
| mails to liquids, medicines, samples, ETC.,
has also contributed to swell the receipts not
| a little. The deficiency in the department in
| 1886 was little less than $7,000,0 900, which
has been reduced for the year ending last
June to So, $50, 900. An increase in the sale
of stamps next year to correspond with that
of the year already closed will put the postal
business ON paying basis.
The largest gain in any one county made